Fear and Loathing

US: Secret Memo Revealed How A Transgender Immigrant Bleeding From Her Rectum Waited 13 Days For Care While Jailed By ICE

An email from Homeland Security investigators to ICE leadership revealed poor health care conditions at a remote jail in New Mexico. ICE officials waited months to move people from the facility.

US: Arizona House passes bill banning transgender student athletes from participating in girls sports

The Arizona House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Tuesday that aims to ban transgender female athletes from participating in girls' school sports. If signed into law, the ban would apply to all students in the state through college. 

US: Serious health care lapses found in U.S. detention center housing transgender migrants

Inspections of the transgender unit at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New Mexico, found hundreds of unanswered requests for medical attention, poor quarantine procedures and deficient treatment

States should not use religious beliefs to justify women and LGBT+ rights violations – UN exper

States should repeal gender discriminatory laws grounded on religious beliefs and must address gender-based violence carried out in the name of religion by non-State actors, said a UN expert in a report presented to the Human Rights Council today.